Why Entuity Is a Network Management Company on the Rise

Entuity's Eye of the Storm intelligent network management software provides an automated, continuous view of an enterprise network, works across all platforms and complements standard networking hardware in an IT system or data center, Entuity says.

LONDON-Any company that both IBM and Intel use to handle
the network monitoring of their internal systems is a company that warrants a
closer look for other enterprises seeking to take better control of their own
networks.

Entuity, with
co-headquarters here and in the Boston
area, is that company. Its whole point is that if you don't know where
everything is on your network, what it's doing and how it's all performing,
then you really don't know the status of your IT system and or data center.

It then follows that you really don't know how well your system is serving its
purpose-either internally or externally with customers.

"You'd think that great companies like Intel and IBM could do their
version of what we're doing, but they don't," Entuity Vice President of Operations
Peter Camber told eWEEK. "It's not that they can't-it's more because they
just like ours."

Both IBM Global Services and Intel use Entuity for controlling their
international data center systems.

Entuity, established in 1997, is one of the world's fastest-rising network
management companies and one of the hottest IT companies in the United
Kingdom. Its Eye of the Storm management
software is now at work in systems belonging to many other companies and organizations
beyond the two noted above, including Sony, JPMorgan Chase, NASA and British
Telecommunications, plus a number of international financial services, health
services, educational and governmental organizations.

In its own way, Entuity has become a leader in the UK's IT sector, along with
network search provider Autonomy, which recently bought content management
veteran Interwoven and seems to be growing quickly despite the worldwide
recession.

Entuity's platform enables network managers to get a complete series of views
into all systems within an enterprise. The company claims that it provides
"automated, continual discovery of network infrastructure inventory and
connectivity to maintain an up-to-date knowledge base of the network from the
core to the edge."

Eye of the Storm works across all platforms (Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX) and
serves as the middle layer between single-function applications that are
difficult to integrate and heavy architectures with specialized functions that
are difficult to deploy and support.

It works seamlessly with VMware systems and complements standard networking
equipment, such as that from Cisco Systems, Brocade and Nortel Networks.

The software, once in operation, gathers and stores the data network
information, such as usage patterns and power peaks and valleys, and uses it as
business intelligence, in that it can warn network managers when an outage or
other problem may occur-hours ahead of time. It is a very proactive network
package.

Chris Preimesberger was named Editor-in-Chief of Features & Analysis at eWEEK in November 2011. Previously he served eWEEK as Senior Writer, covering a range of IT sectors that include data center systems, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, green IT, e-discovery and IT governance. His blog, Storage Station, is considered a go-to information source. Chris won a national Folio Award for magazine writing in November 2011 for a cover story on Salesforce.com and CEO-founder Marc Benioff, and he has served as a judge for the SIIA Codie Awards since 2005. In previous IT journalism, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. His diverse resume also includes: sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, covering NCAA and NBA basketball, television critic for the Palo Alto Times Tribune, and Sports Information Director at Stanford University. He has served as a correspondent for The Associated Press, covering Stanford and NCAA tournament basketball, since 1983. He has covered a number of major events, including the 1984 Democratic National Convention, a Presidential press conference at the White House in 1993, the Emmy Awards (three times), two Rose Bowls, the Fiesta Bowl, several NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, a Formula One Grand Prix auto race, a heavyweight boxing championship bout (Ali vs. Spinks, 1978), and the 1985 Super Bowl. A 1975 graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., Chris has won more than a dozen regional and national awards for his work. He and his wife, Rebecca, have four children and reside in Redwood City, Calif.Follow on Twitter: editingwhiz